"By the men who come to the house ?" Mr.Longdon slightly attenuated this way of putting it.

"Yes--and in the home circle.

Where's the 'strain' of her being suffered to be a member of it ?" III Vanderbank at this left his corner of the sofa and, with his hands in his pockets and a manner so amused that it might have passed for excited, took several paces about the room while his interlocutor, watching him, waited for his response.

That gentleman, as this response for a minute hung fire, took his turn at sitting down, and then Vanderbank stopped before him with a face in which something had been still more brightly kindled.

"You ask me more things than I can tell you.